research_assistantlisted
Install: claude install-skill tanveerkhan2005/custom-agent-with-skills
# Research Assistant Skill
Search and explore academic research using the Semantic Scholar API. Access over 214 million papers, 2.49 billion citations, and 79 million authors across all fields of science.
## When to Use
- User asks about scientific or academic papers
- User wants to find research on a topic
- User asks for citations or references
- User wants to understand the state of research in a field
- User asks "what does the research say about..."
- User wants to find papers by a specific author
- User needs to find papers related to another paper
## Available Operations
1. **Paper Search**: Find papers by keywords, title, or abstract
2. **Author Lookup**: Find papers by a specific researcher
3. **Citation Exploration**: Find papers that cite or are cited by a paper
4. **Paper Recommendations**: Get papers similar to a given paper
5. **Paper Details**: Get full metadata including abstract, authors, venue, year
## Instructions
When a user asks about research or academic papers:
### Step 1: Understand the Query
Identify what the user wants:
- **Topic search**: "papers about transformer architectures"
- **Author search**: "papers by Geoffrey Hinton"
- **Citation search**: "what papers cite this one"
- **Recommendations**: "papers similar to Attention Is All You Need"
### Step 2: Load API Reference
ALWAYS read `references/api_reference.md` before making API calls to ensure you use the correct endpoints and parameters.
### Step 3: Construct the Search
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